Fixing a hole
I'm Fixing a hole where the rain gets in And stops my mind from wandering Where it will go
With big help from F and H.
End
Evening bike ride went full-on cross country.
Barnard
Yogi, disappointed to find that Ewok's 2001 edition of Brewers does not contain the definition of Barnard Castle. But happy that Uncle Professor has the 2005 edition that does.
Meanwhile Ewok found a similar definition in 1984 edition of A Dictionary of Slang attributed (from 1864 no less) thus:
> ‘Come! Come! That’s Barney Castle! an expression often uttered when a person is heard making a bad excuse in a still worse cause’.
Wikipedia may or may not decide that Dominic's visit is worth noting.
Update: observant readers have noted that the rules were very, very clear. Crystal in fact. We even captured a copy of them in a post back in March. I surmise therefore, that members of the cabinet, including the Attorney General, aren't avid readers of c r o s s o a k.
Locked down Wallingford
A lunch time ride into town to drop a couple of things into the Post Office. Quiet.
Morning Office View
Someone asked for the morning view. Here was this mornings. A tad distracting at times.
A Lert
I don't agree that the government's official advice is unclear. It's simples. Just be A Lert. Quod erat demonstrandum.
May in the Garden
W00t! it's May in the Garden.
Previous years:
2019 | 2018 (May-ish) | 2017 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 |
Moving Wood
D & S graciously gave us some of their seasoned 'grown in the garden' timber to help with the garden project. H & F helped move and restack the store. We apologised to the rabbits for the disruption, but hope they'll snack on the other side of the fence now.
Couch to 5K
Following the NHS Couch-to-5 app. On week 3. Gave up keeping up with Rosemary Conley's keep fit video. Let's see how the running goes...
Stay Alert!
Latest guidance: Stay Alert. With a particle diameter of ~0.125μm I'll be sure to keep looking carefully. Could be tricky while the opticians remain closed.
Lock down book sorting
Sorting by colour (after Hazel and Paul). A tad tricky when your colourblind [1]. I think this may have been a better picture in monochrome. Anyone remember Ilford XP2?
[1] ish
Lockdown Walk
A circular walk (with the dogs) for yesterday's lockdown exercise. House - Lane - Wood - Path - Sotwell Hill - Shillingford Bridge - Road - Wood - Lane.
Exhausting.
Smaller Eyes than Me
Yes, I found someone with smaller eyes than me. Okay, Ewok's are only small when I make him pose facing into the morning sun.
Jumps
Every time I pass the jumps get a little more sophisticated. The textures a little more intricate.
Contrail
Yes. We. Saw. A. Contrail.
It was that exciting. We had to stop and get a photo.
Imagine, the days you could get into a metal tube and fly a mile high in the sky between countries and continents in hours.
Project Update
Progress on the lock down project. Place an old cassette tape on top of the box to listen to a Spotify playlist. Lift the cassette to pause playback, replace to continue. Switch the (cassette) tape to change the playlist.
An RFID tag on the tape triggers a reader in the box. The ID on the tag maps to a playlist which a Raspberry Pi plays via Mopidy through a Denon amp and Q-Acoustic speakers.
Well, what else was there to do?
Evening run
Yesterday's evening run 1 from Brightwell. Stopped about here when Elliot Adamson whispered in my ears:
> "Do you feel overwhelmed and confused by the global predicament? You are on the right track."
Nicely done Mr. Adamson. Nicely done.
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Currently a run is defined as a series of short periods running interspearsed by similar periods walking. Sounds good though. ↩
Yogi's Haircut
Before the hair cut.
The end of cow parsley path
At the end of Cow Parsley Path is more Cow Parsley. A lot more. Just as well we like it.
Lockdown Coping Strategy No.16
Ewok and Yogi have refined their coping strategy. It's called Sleep. It works very well. I may have to adopt it.
WiFi
Yesterday was running Cat6 Ethernet down the garden. Today was hooking it up to some WiFi.
Hopefully that'll be more reliable than the TP-Link PowerLine convertors.
Ethernet
Today's challenge: running ethernet cable down to Fay's studio. A tad tricky when you're colour-blind [1] and trying to figure out which wire goes where.
[1] ish.
Wild flower progress
Progress in the wild flower meadow. The rabbits like the patch in the front. But the back is doing well.
